The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past two days, causing concern among many BitTorrent users. No further details have been announced, but judging from past experience the outage is likely being caused by temporary technical issues. The Tor version of the site remains operational, but without new content.

The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for nearly 48 hours now.

For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that a “bad gateway” is causing the issue.

No further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. However, judging from past experience, it’s likely a small technical issue that needs fixing.

TPB 502 Cloudflare error

The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime in recent months. The popular torrent site usually returns after several hours, but an outage of more than a day has happened before as well.

Amid the downtime, there’s still some good news for those who desperately need to access the notorious torrent site.

TPB is still available via its .onion address on the Tor network, accessible using the popular Tor Browser, for example. The site’s Tor traffic goes through a separate server and works just fine.

The Pirate Bay team has a status page in the forums where people can check to see if an outage is affecting everyone or not. This also shows that the Tor version of the site is working fine, although it doesn’t show any new torrents.

The main .org domain will probably be back in action soon enough, but seasoned TPB users will probably know the drill by now…